Anna Faris

Seemingly coming out of nowhere, actress Anna Faris made a name for herself in broad comedies, starting with the horror spoof-within-a-spoof "Scary Movie" (2000) - itself a send-up of other horror par...
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"He's not good at it... Sorry honey...! He can't quite mould the animal into what it was. He's a hunter, so he likes to shoot animals, deer, elk, ducks... We always eat them." Anna Faris on her actor husband Chris Pratt's taxidermy hobby.

With the past two Septembers bringing us break-out series like The Mindy Project and Scandal, Hollywood is proving that strong female leads are here to stay. Zooey may want to hold onto her adorable thick-framed glasses though, there are some new girls in town.CBSMomIs Anna Faris finally sobering up from her days as everyone’s favorite house bunny? As struggling single mom Christy (Faris) tries to navigate raising her children and dealing with her past, her own mother (Allison Janney) insists on lending a bit of knowledge to the process. You may not be a recovering alcoholic but let’s face it, we can all relate to the power struggle that comes with overbearing parents. As both female leads will face ups and downs with their family, romantic lives and jobs, maybe we can learn a little about compromise and acceptance within our own home units. Premieres Sept. 23 on CBS.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.Joss Whedon is no stranger to creating some paramount female characters. Seriously, did no one else fantasize about slaying demons while still maintaining perfectly straight hair? This fall he brings us three new women in the premiere series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Elizabeth Henstridge, Ming-Na Wen and Chloe Bennet comprise half of the six member team dedicated to protecting the boring, normal citizens of the world from the usual super-human villains. Premieres Sept. 24 on ABC.ReignAmerica’s newfound obsession with period dramas isn’t going anywhere soon but far from Downton Abbey is The CW’s newest series Reign. The 15-year-old Queen Mary (Adelaide Kane) is politically savvy — sent to France to marry a prince and finalize an alliance between the country and Scotland — and isn’t about to take any crap from her future in-laws. Of course, like any other teen monarch, Mary faces betrayal, some catty royals and those pesky dark forces that wind up in every countryside castle. No doubt the young queen will take on the French Court and come out on top and teenage girls everywhere will learn just what it takes to deal with arranged marriage and Nostradamus’s prophecies in 16th-century France. Premieres Oct. 17 on The CW. Masters of SexIf Lena Dunham’s Girls didn’t do it for you, maybe Lizzy Caplan’s portrayal of a sex researcher in Showtime’s Masters of Sex will. The one-hour series will chronicle the work of Dr. William Masters and partner/wife/ex-wife Virginia Johnson as they attempt to bring both science and the public into the discussion of intimacy and sexual behavior. Don’t worry, this won’t be 60-minutes of medical labs: the relationship between the two will be the more explored element of the show. It’s worth to watch not simply for what we’re sure will be some explicit scenes, but to learn more about the pioneering life of Johnson and the courage it took to talk openly about these subjects as a female in the 50s. Premieres Sept. 29 on Showtime. Once Upon A Time In Wonderland The adventures from Once Upon A Time aren’t over yet — even if the girl is stuck in some mental institute somewhere in the boondocks of Maine. Spinoff Once Upon A Time In Wonderland will follow lead female Sophie Lowe as she portrays everyone’s favorite fairytale character. Finding her way back to the rabbit-hole is the least of her problems: once she’s there the residents of Wonderland are sure to begin giving her hell once again. If you can learn anything from Alice, it’s that you should definitely avenge your genie-boyfriend’s death and fight against the Queen of Hearts. Premieres Oct. 10 on ABC.
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Actor Chris Pratt is flaunting his muscular new body after cutting beer from his diet to shape up for forthcoming superhero movie Guardians Of The Galaxy. The Zero Dark Thirty star indulged in junk food last year (12) in a bid to pack on 60 pounds (27.2 kilograms) to play an overweight lawyer in new Vince Vaughn comedy Delivery Man, but he has spent the past six months trying to shed the excess fat and he's showing off the results of his strict diet and workout plan with a photo on Instagram.com.
Pratt, who is married to actress Anna Faris, snapped a picture of himself topless in the gym and shared the image of his six-pack abs with fans on Sunday (07Jul13).
In the accompanying caption, he writes, "Six months no beer. Kinda douchey to post this but my brother made me."
Pratt has been getting fit in preparation for his lead role in Marvel Comics' Guardians of the Galaxy, in which he will play Peter Quill/Star-Lord.
The movie, co-starring Zoe Saldana, Glenn Close and Benicio del Toro, is due to begin filming later this year (13).

Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jason Mraz struggled to film his segment for the video to accompany tragic Zach Sobiech's tune Clouds because he couldn't stop sobbing. The teenager recorded his uplifting song just weeks before he lost his cancer battle on 20 May (13) and the filmmaker chronicling his final days decided to ask some of his famous friends to record themselves singing along to the track for the promo.
Mraz joined Bryan Cranston, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson and Anna Faris among others for the video, which has become a viral hit, propelling the song into the U.S. pop charts - it's this week's highest debut at 26.
But the I'm Yours hitmaker admits he struggled to film his segment because the song touched him so deeply.
He says, "I had never heard a song with such purpose and a song that needed to be in the world and that song was an example of how one can choose one's life powerfully. I couldn't get through the song without crying several times. I just felt this was such a powerful message that needed to be shared. I was really happy to be a part of it.
"When a song comes from the heart it has the ability to live inside of all our hearts. Zach had a gift, a true message to share with us all that now lives inside of us all."

All the champagne has been popped, the confetti swept off the floor, and the entertainment execs shuttled bleary-eyed onto a plane back to LA, because the TV Upfronts are over. This little season where all the channels try to convince advertisers that their new shows are going to be awesome is all done. But other than all the particulars of the new fall lineups and the trailers for all the new shows, what else did we learn? Here are some trends!
Super Powers: Just like in the movies, it's all about the superheroes on TV these days. ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is in the same universe as The Avengers, The CW's Tomorrow People is a bit of an X-Men ripoff with mutant powers, ABC's Resurrection has a kid mysteriously coming back to life, and CBS' Intelligence has Josh Holloway (yes, Sawyer from Lost) as a cop with a magic microchip in his brain. Just wait, we're going to find out that Alice in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland has powers too.
The Mini-Series Is Back: Doomed to irrelevance just a decade ago, limited edition programming is in for the fall. NBC has limited series Dracula all lined up, but Fox is betting the farm on a host of one-shot deals including the much-hyped 24 relaunch. They also have Billy the Kidd, Blood Brothers, The People V OJ Simpson, and a remake of classic miniseries Shogun on tap.
Fox Is Busting Up the Schedule: In a seeming response to the threat posed by cable channels and newfangled "TV" networks like Neflix is Hulu, Fox is trying to shake off the traditional September-to-May TV schedule with year-round programming. Between the mini-series and shortened schedules for other shows, the network's roster will be revolving at all times. Is this the start of the end of TV as we know it?
Who Doesn't Love a Rag Tag Group?: Sure, NBC gave Go On, a show about a diverse group of people in therapy, the axe, but the motley crew is back in a big way in a number of sitcoms. ABC's Back in the Game is a new take on the Bad News Bears, ABC's Super Fun Night shows three dorky girls trying to have the time of their lives, ABC's Lucky 7 has a weird group of coworkers winning the lottery (remember when this was called Windfall in 2006?), NBC's Undateable looks into the love lives of nerds, Fox's Enlisted is about the world's worst soldiers, and Andy Samberg leads a silly squad of cops on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
NBC Is Trying to Change...into CBS: With few shows left on its roster and even fewer hits, NBC is currently TV's whipping boy. But it's trying something different. Well, it's trying to be CBS. Its new comedies are all broad and mostly three-camera (see Sean Saves the World) and they're trying a bunch of procedurals like The Blacklist (with James Spader, which actually looks good), Ironside (a remake of the cop-in-a-wheelchair show), and Chicago PD (a spin-off of Chicago Fire).
It's Always About the Parents: Plenty in this year's crop of shows feature adults dealing with their older parents. Will Arnett's parents move back in on CBS' The Millers, Anna Faris deals with her crazy mom Allison Janney on CBS' Mom, Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi can't take their Dads on Fox, James Caan and his daughter coach her kid's little league team on ABC's Back in the Game, and Sarah Michelle Gellar is cursed with having Robin Williams as her dad and business partner on CBS' The Crazy Ones.
The Past Is Our Future: Everything old is new again! The CW gets all soapy with Mary Queen of Scots in Reign, the '80s get The Wonder Years treatment (with more camp) in ABC's The Goldbergs, and in Fox's insane Sleepy Hollow Ichibod Crane literally wakes up in the modern day to fight the headless horseman once again. Sometimes the past should stay buried.
The Future Is Also Our Future: Not only are we going to the past, but the future is so bright, we have to wear shades. Or, well, we have to have our cops partner with robots in J.J. Abrams' Fox drama Almost Human. The CW is going all genre all the time and both The 100, where teenage criminals are shipped off to a ruined planet Earth, and Star Crossed, about human and alien integration in high school, are both set in brave new worlds.
The CW Is Sticking to Its Guns: If sci-fi and teen drama shows work for the network, why fix it? All of their new offerings fall into one category or the other. Like someone who wears the same outfit every day, at least they know what looks good on them.
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Men, moms, and a mini-series are just some of what CBS has in store for viewers this fall. The top-rated network had their upfront presentation at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday and rolled out the trailers for their new shows. Some looked very good (hello, The Hostages!) and some, well, make us sadder for Will Arnett than Up All Night ever did (The Millers).
The network seems to be staying close to their current formula of bawdy comedies (We Are Men could just as easily be called We Are Two and a Half Men) and glossy procedurals starring Lost alums (Intelligence). But, hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. CBS is also going heavy on star power in the 2013 fall season, nabbing the likes of Robin Williams, Kelly Clarkson, and Sarah Michelle Gellar. All on the same show, no less.
Here are the previews for all the new CBS series and our first impressions of them. Hopefully the network will release the inspired Les Mis parody they did with the cast of How I Met Your Mother in which they croon "One Year More." Seriously legendary.
The HostagesHow they'll turn this into an entire series, we have no idea, but we're already hooked. This intense drama, centered around a doctor (the great Toni Collette) unwillingly put in a Presidential assassination plot by a baddie (Dylan McDermott), looks like a truly well-made thriller.
The Crazy OnesRobin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kelly Clarkson, and James Wolk all shill for McDonalds. Wait, is this why Bob Benson is at Sterling Cooper? He's a mole!
IntelligenceJosh Holloway has the Internet in his brain, or something. Poor guy. It's going to be mostly Lost spoilers in there.
Mom Joining CBS' Mom-day night lineup (get it?!) is the latest from Chuck Lorre, in which Anna Faris plays a recovering alcoholic single mother. Yes, it's a comedy. But, hey, the always-great Allison Janney is there, so that's something.
We Are MenThey are men. Two of those men are Tony Shaloub and Jerry O'Connell and they say and do crass things because, you know, they are men. CBS knows where their bread is buttered.
The Millers Sadly, this isn't a spin-off of Margo Martindale's New Girl Miller mama, rather a new comedy in which she plays Will Arnett's mom who farts a lot. Beau Bridges and JB Smoove star in it as well. They do not appear to be farting.
Under the DomeNot quite as funny as The Simpsons movie, but Dean Norris is there so that's awesome! Spielberg is bringing the mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's classic story to the small screen this June.
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Want to know what your parents will be watching this fall? CBS has ordered six new series for the 2013-2014 TV season — two dramas and four comedies featuring big-name stars like Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Toni Collette, Will Arnett and more. And yes, Chuck Lorre now has a fourth sitcom on the network. Let's go through them:
Hostages Toni Collette stars as a Washington D.C. surgeon chosen to perform a special operation on the president. When her family is taken hostage she's the one who has to save their lives. It also stars Dylan McDermott and Tate Donovan, among others.
Intelligence Lost alum Josh Holloway plays a government agent with a microchip planted in his brain that allows him to access the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Marg Helgenberger, Meghan Ory, Michael Rady, and James Martinez costar.
We Are Men A man (Chris Smith) learns some very important life lessons from the divorced dudes he meets at his new furnished, short-term rental apartment complex. This cast has plenty of great potential, with Kal Penn, Jerry O'Connell and Tony Shaloub playing the eccentric neighbors.
Mom Anna Faris has made her move to TV in this Chuck Lorre vehicle about a recently sober single mother living in wine country while dealing with her teenage daughter and her own disruptive mom (Allison Janney).
The Millers Another dysfunctional family sitcom, but this one stars Will Arnett as a man whose parents move in with him after his divorce. Margo Martindale and Beau Bridges play said parents — another solid cast.
Crazy Ones The highly anticipated return of Robin Williams to TV centers around a father and his daughter (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who work in advertising together. James Wolk's also in it, if you wanted one more reason to watch.
Which of these new series sounds most promising? And which one will be your dad's new favorite show?
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Comedy is the most subjective of all movie genres. The things that will elicit laughter from people are contingent upon personal experiences, individual moral convictions, and, most specifically, those ineffable variations in senses of humor. A great example of this happens to be releasing its fifth iteration in theaters this weekend. There are those among us, this writer definitely included, who have never liked the Scary Movie franchise. However, this series has managed to garner enough popularity to remain financially solvent for thirteen years.
That being said, there are so many jokes in any given Scary Movie that it seems impossible that even the most stalwart detractor wouldn’t find something to make them chuckle. Bearing all the subjectivity of comedy in mind, and in light of the release of Scary Movie 5, this detractor thought it was time to revisit the first four films and dole out any credit where credit may be due. It’s not exactly a more objective approach, but this quartet of flicks has officially been given the benefit of the doubt.
Scary Movie:
Wrong Set
As our lead couple, Anna Faris and Jon Abrahams, recreate a tender scene from Scream, a very lost James Van Der Beek, prompted by the playing of the song “I Don’t Wanna Wait,” appears briefly in the window before noticing he’s on the wrong set. On the one hand, this reference to Dawson’s Creekdoes immediately date the movie, one of the franchise’s biggest problems, it also astutely acknowledges how inextricable from late 90s romance that song became.
White Folks are Dead
During the on-campus media circus that followed the opening murder in Scary Movie, one news network had the foresight to abandon the story lest they become a part of it. It is true that this gag is not the most racially sensitive, but it has been well-established that the track record for African-American characters making it to the end of horror movies is abysmal. Therefore, when the camera slowly pans to the van for “Black TV,” and the anchor states that they are leaving the area immediately because “white folks are dead,” it was clever enough to prompt a chortle.
Doofy Ending
Moreso than any other character from Scream, the first Scary Movie brutally mocks David Arquette’s oafish Deputy Dewey. They reduce him to a drooling, mentally ill caricature that would be insurmountably offensive if not for the great final moment he is granted. As Cindy sits in the police station in the aftermath of the killing spree, she notes that the real killer had to be someone close to all the victims who could move about without being noticed. In a sharp nod to Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects, she realizes it was in fact Doofy. The Keyser Soze payoff is quite nice; guffaws abounded.
Scary Movie 2
Citizen Kane
Though even fewer jokes seemed to resonate in Scary Movie 2 as did in the first, one moment that absolutely delighted involved a nod to, of all things, a former member of the juice crew. As the whacked-out butler, played by Chris Elliott, is showing Cindy a line of portraits of members of the ill-fated Kane family, suddenly they come upon the painting of 80s era rapper Big Daddy Kane. Given that a vast majority of the non-movie references made in this franchise are for commercials, TV shows, and celebrities that are only relevant exactly at the time of production, this allusion to Kane was a breath of fresh air.
What Lies Within
Ordinarily what tend to be the weakest gags in any Scary Movie sequel are the direct recreations of scenes from the movies they are lampooning. However in Scary Movie 2, one imitation of What Lies Beneath was enough to kick-start a cackle. As a possessed Cindy straddles the Professor (Tim Curry), she utters the recognizable line, “I think she’s starting to suspect something.” From there, Scary Movie 2 offers an entertaining twist on the supernatural other woman switcheroo from What Lies Beneath. It’s the execution and timing on this gag that elevates it above the Scary Movie franchise’s typical twist on notable genre scenes.
Scary Movie 3
The Face of Fear
It could be argued, and we certainly intend to, that Scary Movie 3 is the strongest entry in the series. It’s not great, but it was the first to pull in the legendary David Zucker (Airplane, The Naked Gun). One of the best sight gags in Scary Movie 3 has to be the one that plays with the horror convention of warped photographs as portents of doom. Cindy thinks the twisted face of the young man in the photo is a supernatural occurrence, until she sees him in the flesh, and his face is actually warped. Such a smart, tongue-in-cheek joke that elicited a full-fledged belly laugh.
Can’t Get a Handle
There are ironically very few moments in which the Scary Movie franchise feels like actual parody. More often than not these films are simply pop culture coat racks. However, one of the best, and most insightful, jabs the series has ever taken at contemporary horror has to be Scary Movie 3’s knock on M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. When told that the invading aliens will not be able to get to his family barricaded in the basement, our hero, played by Charlie Sheen, ponders the logic of the shortcoming that keeps the extraterrestrials at bay. In so doing, he is undermining the leaky script for Shyamalan’s film. Call it what you will, it was hilarious.
Stroke of Genius
Nine times out of ten, any movie featuring Jeremy Piven is worth watching if only for his moments on screen. Few films better illustrate this principal than does Scary Movie 3. Though he doesn’t have a huge role, Piven plays a hapless news anchor spouting off the nonsense that scrolls across the teleprompter as someone leans on the keyboard in the control room. It may sound like he’s have a stroke at times, but Piven commits to the bit so intently that one can’t help but be tickled. O shizl gzngahr indeed, sir.
Scary Movie 4
Leaving it All on the Line
Scary Movie 4 unfortunately seeks to undo all the favorable progress that was made by Scary Movie 3. However, it too is not without its moments. During the onset of the alien invasion, in what will become a long-running reference to Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, the denizens of a quaint suburb look to the skies at the coming storm. As the camera pans across, every backyard appears to have clothes on a line. Just as the audience notices, an off-screen voice cries out, “why don’t any of us have dryers?” It seems a throwaway joke, but it’s actually a subtle dig at the cliché methods by which filmmakers can create mood even when those methods don’t conform to logic.
Old English
Though most of the jokes in Scary Movie 4 that center on “parodying” M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village are just woeful toilet humor. However, the town counsel scene is priceless. The elders conduct their business in what can only be described as farcically archaic old English. There are so many prepositions injected into sentences merely to avoid ever ending with one. It’s a joke at the expense of the elaborate means by which the characters in The Villagetry and maintain their 19th century ruse. In any event, it’s worthy of a snicker or two.
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It was in the final act of Scary Movie 3 that I realized, for the very first time, how alone in the world I was. Late in the movie, which I saw in theaters at age 15, director David Zucker mainstay Leslie Nielsen bolted hastily through a closed door, knocking the film's ghoulish monster to its demise before it could attack heroes Anna Faris and Simon Rex, reciting all the while the following iconic line from Airplane!: "I just want to wish you both good luck. We're all counting on you." A vehement Airplane! fan and a sucker for reference humor, I of course laughed. But nobody else, in the entire cinema — not my buddies, my then-girlfriend, or the crowd of strangers around us — joined me. "You guys don't get it?" I asked. I was alone. Nielsen's line was a joke lost on this demographic in a movie constructed exclusively For this demographic.
Scary Movie 5 rectifies this inconsistency.
The new film is built on the same model of the Scary Movies of past: a conglomeration of the horror (and a few other) films of recent years. The premises of Mama, Paranormal Activity, and Evil Dead meld with much stranger choices, like Black Swan, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, and Inception (there are also a few nods to The Cabin In The Woods and The Help in there). Following the death of their father Charlie Sheen (who is killed by a possessed Lindsay Lohan), three young, feral kids are discovered living in a haunted cabin, and brought to the custody of their paternal uncle Dan (Rex, once again) and his child-hating girlfriend Jody (Ashley Tisdale). Accompanying the tots is an evil spirit, "Mama," who wreaks havoc on the new household. Aching to uphold her new career in ballet and hold her family together, Jody seeks the aid of her maid Maria (Lidia Porto), her Swan Lake rival (Erica Ash), a psychic (Katt Williams), a dream inception-er (Ben Cornish), and scientist Dan's hyper-intelligent monkey friend to put this evil to rest.
But while the film has a plethora of movies from which to choose for parody, it doesn't actually seem to make jokes About any of them.
The parody was constructed (and perfected in part by Zucker himself) as a means to call attention to the flaws, follies, and lovable imperfections of the genres of focus. There are a few instances in Scary Movie 5 when director Malcolm D. Lee seems to be lending his attention to the idiosyncrasies of his subjects: one prolongued shot in the film actually mimics and mocks the cinematography of Black Swan (that's the Airplane! joke of this installment). But beyond this instance, and a few jabs at the excessive surveillance camera-work in Paranormal Activity, the horror and thriller genres go relatively untouched. Instead of being parodies, they are just used as a vehicle to shove as many bits of violent and sexual humor into the hour-and-a-half entry as possible.
As such, it feels more appropriate that the likes of Inception and The Help and a few other recent pop culture phenomena (there's an entire Fifty Shades Of Grey sequence) are called to arms in Scary Movie 5. It doesn't matter that they're not scary movies, because Scary Movie 5 isn't about scary movies. It's about sex, vomiting, and racial stereotypes (every non-white character in this movie is reduced to a collection of bigoted gags). There are also horror movie references, but they're just there to get us to the scenes of a Latina housekeeper having sex with a vacuum cleaner.
And for those entirely willing to shirk off any satiric value in Scary Movie 5 just to make it to whatever gags the film has in store, troopers that you are, rest assured: the comedy that Scary Movie 5 does strive for is devastating. It's not simply that the jokes are irrelevant to the franchise's established identity. They're lazy, tossed in clumsily, redundant (So Many Scenes of babies being thrown into things), and the worst offense of the lot: they're nothing, Nothing, you have not seen before. In the shoddiest excuse for comedy films out there.
So, I think back to that fateful day in the theater, catching Scary Movie 3 on an weekend night in the autumn of my sophomore year of high school. I think about how the Airplane! reference inspired a momentary joy, reminding me of a far superior parodic exploit, and how it, albeit a moreover cheap reference, was actually somewhat of a riff on the construct of another film. One that didn't seem to really work for anyone there to enjoy Scary Movie 3. And I mourn the absence of this in No. 5. Nothing's flying over anybody's heads here:. It's all right there on the surface: babies being thrown into walls, maids shtupping household appliances, and people getting hit in the head.
Now That's good parody.
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Summary

Seemingly coming out of nowhere, actress Anna Faris made a name for herself in broad comedies, starting with the horror spoof-within-a-spoof "Scary Movie" (2000) - itself a send-up of other horror parodies like "Scream" (1996) and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997). Faris made an immediate impact, which led to several sequels atop other studio comedies like "The Hot Chick" (2003), though she wisely began to break away, following a surprisingly memorable turn in the acclaimed indie "Lost in Translation" (2003). Her small, but potently comedic performance as a ditzy actress opened the doors to other more varied projects, including the romantic comedy "Just Friends" (2005) and the Oscar-winning drama, "Brokeback Mountain" (2005). But broad comedy remained her bread and butter, though sometimes to her detriment, particularly with her fourth go-round in "Scary Movie 4" (2006). By the time she starred opposite Seth Rogen in the raunchy "Observe and Report" (2009), Faris had established herself as a go-to actress for Hollywood comedies.

Announced engagement in January 2009 ; Married July 9, 2009 in a small ceremony in Bali, Indonesia

Education

Name

Edmonds Woodway High School

University of Washington

Notes

"Anna has a natural comic instinct. She's subtle, more the Leslie Nielsen type. Without batting an eyelash, she gets the laughs." – director David Zucker to Entertainment Weekly, Oct. 31, 2003

"I was maybe a little eccentric in high school. I felt unattractive, short and self-conscious about my body, and I would purposely emphasize that by doing odd things. I wore glasses, braces, odd hair-dos and dumpy clothes. I was clumsy and awkward." – Faris to Playboy magazine, September 2008